About Me

I'm a professional harp performer, chef / pastry chef, and speculative fiction writer from Cincinnati, Ohio. My contemporary fantasy novel Flow is available from Double Dragon Publishing. I've also sold a number of short stories and a few pieces of speculative poetry. I write predominantly fantasy, usually epic and/or humorous, with some soft science fiction. I play the traditional lever harp with a specialty in Celtic music - but I also perform modern and Renaissance tunes.
And yes, you read that right - I have a diploma in Baking and Pastry and an Associates in Culinary Arts and am currently working in the catering field at Kate's Catering and Personal Chef Services (Dayton, KY).

Friday, October 06, 2017

Guest Post: Tales From The Underground

Y'all know I adore anthologies, and today I'm hosting a guest post about a newly released anthology from Inklings Press. Read on ...

We have a challenge for you. Put your feet on the ground. Feel
the earth under your feet. Now imagine…imagine what is under that earth.
Imagine the Underground.

Tales From The Underground is a new collection of stories from
Inklings Press –with a dozen stories from writers around
the world, all imagining what might lie beneath the ground.

There are stories of fantasy, there are stories of science
fiction, there are stories bringing you a shiver in the dark.

So here, join us as we discuss what lurks beneath…

What is Inklings Press?

Inklings Press started out as a collective of writers working
together to publish short stories –and though the net is wider these days,
that’s exactly what Inklings Press remains.
Royalties are evenly divided between writers, so every book sold gives
contributors more money in their pocket. The press takes a single share too,
the same size as any writer’s, to pay for
advertising and promoting the book.

In short, Inklings aims to provide a place for writers who are
new or up-and-coming, and we’re delighted to
bring those writers’stories to the world.

Why Tales From The Underground?

Tales From The Underground is perhaps the most natural
development in the Inklings collection of books so far. The idea came from the
writers of previous anthologies. In discussion, the writers themselves
suggested the theme, so we ran with it. And the outcome is the biggest
collection of stories yet from Inklings Press.

Who is in the anthology?

There are writers from around the world in the collection –there are stories that were authored in Australia, made in Mexico, that
flourished in Finland and France, emerged from England and were born in The
Bahamas.

The list of authors includes those with novels to their name, and
those who are still taking their first steps in publication.

One of the nice things about this collection is the range of
stories inside.

Fantasy is a strong theme throughout, as in the urban fantasy of
Rob Edwards’The Lords of Negative Space, about the world just
out of sight. But there are also science fiction tales, such as Jaleta Clegg’s tale, The Angels of Mestora, in which
unwary dwellers of a distant planet are lured away from civilization by “angelsong”,
and Ricardo Victoria’s Buried Sins, with
a battle in an ancient underground city.

Jeff Provine delves into a cavern with a reputation for weird
events, while Brent A. Harris takes us on a trip through time. N.C. Stow imbues
her tale with the influence of Russian mythology, while both Lawrence Harding
and E.M. Swift-Hook tell us tales of mythology in worlds of their own devising.
Claire Buss goes underground in more than one sense in her tale Underground
Scratching, and Jeanette O’Hagan presents a
team of miners fighting for their very lives against supernatural powers.

Christopher Edwards tells us a tale of strange visions in an RAF
bunker, and Leo McBride follows explorers retracing the steps of an expedition
that never returned. There are ghosts, there are distant planets, there are
things happening in the ground under our very feet. Legends are revealed, and
legends are made.

It is a delight to watch the stories take such different
directions while all sharing the same theme.

Where can I get it?

Tales From The Underground is available on Amazon at
www.amazon.com/Tales-Underground-Twelve-hidden-legends-ebook/dp/B075ZQ579N. You
can also learn more at www.inklingspress.com. Each story also includes
information about the writers, so if you fall in love with one of the works,
you can follow the links to learn –and read –more.